I think I missed something here. Why do you want to be a Cardinal, Bishop, Archbishop, etc.? If you want to just jump straight to Pope, take up Discordianism and the consider yourself a Pope: http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080808122828/discordia/images/9/9a/Pope_card.jpg In Discordianism ev...

Rev. Frank (who is registered here now and will no doubt post some day) and I came up with something we call "Kevin's Law", which is relevant to this topic. Kevin's law states: Any food with bacon on it is automatically superior to the same food without bacon on it. So far we've not encoun...

Today being Easter for much of the world's population I've been lamenting the lack of a coinciding Pastafarian holiday. Just as the Christians decided Christmas and Easter would occur on the same days as already popular "pagan" holidays, it makes sense that we would set our holidays to coi...

My wife and I decided today that Tampa, Florida is possibly the holiest Pastafarian city in the world -- owing solely to the annual Gasparilla Pirate Invasion. Each year the City of Tampa is invaded by many krewes of pirates. Though the mayor always intends not to give up the city he eventually rele...

I think a religious upbringing it quite good at making sure that many people don't become religious, as long as the child is taught some critical thinking, and knows that it is okay to question. These are critical points. Many of the people that are still devout as adults seem to be missing that &q...

Rev. Frank is a Pastafarian friend of mine. He is married to a wonderful woman who also happens to be Catholic. They have a 9 year old daughter together. Presently Mom is in charge of the child's religious indoctrination and, unsurprisingly, the child is being indoctrinated with all the usual Cathol...

Obviously an FSM baptismal is just as "valid" as any other religion's baptismal - but something tells me you'll have an uphill fight on this one. You might want to take a look at a bunch of baptismal certificates from the "mainstream" churches and make yours a little more formal ...

Blasphemy! Burn the heretic! Dang - you guys in England get all the fun. We're not allowed to burn heretics over here in the States anymore. I think the hand-wringers on the Supreme Court said it violated someone's rights or something. Obviously all these rights cause lots of problems. How the heck...